Words matter. These are the best Wisest Quotes from famous people such as Diogenes, Karen Salmansohn, Tom Cotton, Kage Baker, William Shakespeare, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
My thesis was a defense of our Constitution on the terms that the founding fathers wrote specifically in the Federalist Papers. They hoped that our form of government would draw forward men and women who are the wisest, most prudent, and most experienced.
According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein’s monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
My mother is probably the wisest person I’ve ever known. She’s not schooled, she’s not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
I’ve beaten some of the wisest, most opportunistic and powerful women, and I will prove to Asuka that she is not unstoppable.
Time is the wisest counselor of all.
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections… nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
It’s important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren’t the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it’d be wrong to think that they’re automatically bad.
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.
A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
I’ve met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother’s father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents’ worth of time.
Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.
